Installing the Quickbooks Online App
What We'll Cover
Prerequisites
Connecting the QuickBooks Online app
Additional resources
The QuickBooks Online app (powered by OneSaas) is a free BigCommerce app that integrates your store with your QuickBooks Online account. This app can help save you time, effort, and errors by automating your bookkeeping. Its features include:
automatically syncing orders, products, customers, taxes, discounts, refunds, and shipping charges
accurately recording sales income, tax, refunds, discounts, and shipping
automatic payments reconciliation*
*QuickBooks Online can automatically troubleshoot transactions when paired with QuickBooks Payments.
Prerequisites
Before setting up the QuickBooks Online app, please make sure you have the following set up in your BigCommerce account and QuickBooks Online account. (If you don't already have a QuickBooks Online account, you can create a trial.)
BIGCOMMERCE SETTINGS
Payment methods should be set up. If these change later, you can resync them with QuickBooks.
Taxes should be set up. If you are using Avalara, make sure there are no tax rates set up when Avalara is disabled, or else these will be synched with QuickBooks Online.
Have SKUs on your products? QuickBooks Online references products by SKU instead of name. If your products do not have SKUs, QuickBooks Online will create them.
How QuickBooks Online displays product SKUs
Will QuickBooks Online use my product names? Yes. The product's name will appear under the Sales Description field in QuickBooks.
QUICKBOOKS ONLINE SETTINGS
Set up your Taxes (In the navigation bar, click Sales Tax. If Payroll is enabled, click Taxes › Sales Tax)
Set up your Chart of Accounts (Gear icon › Chart of Accounts under Your Company)
Enable Shipping and Discount (Gear icon › Account and Settings under Your Company › Sales › Sales form content)
Enable Track Quantity on Hand (Gear icon › Account and Settings under Your Company › Sales › Products and services)
Did you know that QuickBooks Online can show you a list of accountants in your area? Check it out under Help › Find an accountant.
Connecting the QuickBooks Online app
Once you've completed the prerequisite setup, you can install and connect the QuickBooks Online app.
1. In the BigCommerce control panel, go to Store Setup › Accounting.
2. Next to QuickBooks Online, click Install.
Installing the QuickBooks Online app
4. Click Confirm to allow QuickBooks Online to access your BigCommerce store.
Confirm access
5. You will now be asked to connect with your QuickBooks Online account. If you don't already have one, you will be prompted to create a trial. Click Connect, and proceed through the QuickBooks Online Setup Walkthrough.
Additional Resources
Using the App Marketplace
Stencil and App Compatibility
QuickBooks Online Setup Walkthrough (OneSaas)
Configuration Tips and Troubleshooting techniques (OneSaas)
Troubleshooting Bigcommerce (OneSaas)
Troubleshooting QuickBooks Online (OneSaas)
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